Subject: RE: 5500 Blank video bootx
From: Marc Stergionis (stermarc@home.com)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 12:36:45 MST
Don't *remember* but BootX 1.2.2 is what works on my work 8600.
-ms
Sometime around 10:52 AM -0800 on 11/20/01, Pete Peters pounded out this ditty:
>IIRC, there *WAS* a BootX issue after upgrading from MacOS 9.0 to 9.1,
>but that it was resolved. Unfortunately, I don't remember *HOW* it was
>installed. Maybe a newer/patched BootX? Anyone remember?
>
>Pete
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simon Troup [mailto:simon.troup@btinternet.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:33 AM
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Re: 5500 Blank video bootx
>
>
>>>> Trying to install YDL 2.0 on 5500/225 (built in monitor). When bootx
>prompts
>>>> for OS no matter what I select I get a blank screen. I searched the
>archives
>>>> and the question has been raised a number of times but there are no
>answers
>>>> to the problem. Can anyone help?
>
>>> I've just been reading a little more and it seems that BootX can't be
>used
>>> with anything after OS 9.0.0 and I have 9.1 on the powermac 5500, so
>perhaps
>>> that is the problem.
>>>
>>> Is there an alternative as I don't have OS 9.0.0 or anything earlier?
>>>
>>> In fact, I don't need MacOS running on that machine at all.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> ST
>>>
>> I have never read that ... but I do have BootX starting YDL2.1 on an
>> 8600-300 running 9.1!
>>
>> Maybe the 5500 is a special case ....
>>
>> -ms
>
>I read that (bootX not working on post OS9.0) on the Suse site. Maybe
>that's
>wrong, I'm not sure I'm ever going to get this thing working. It must
>surely
>be a 5500 specific problem then, and besides, I have an identical
>problem to
>others who wrote to the list, no-one replied to those questions though.
>
>Regards
>
>ST
-- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis -- Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare <http://www.benefis.org> "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer."
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